Research

Spatial Intelligence

This direction studies cities as open spatial environments and builds intelligence that can perceive, model, reason about, and act within them. It connects multimodal spatial reasoning across remote sensing, street views, and 3D scenes; geospatial intelligence over structured urban data; world models for simulating open environments; and physical AI for spatial action and real-world applications.

Multimodal Reasoning Physical AI Geospatial Intelligence World Models
Preprint 2026.05

SpatialAct: Probing Spatial Reasoning-to-Action Capabilities of VLM Agents in 3D Scenes

Tianhui Liu, Jie Feng, Zhiheng Zheng, et al.

Preprint 2025.11

(UrbanWorld 2.0) RAISECity: A Multimodal Agent Framework for Reality-Aligned 3D World Generation at City-Scale

Shengyuan Wang, Zhiheng Zheng, Yu Shang, et al.

ICLR 2026

CityLens: Benchmarking Large Vision-Language Models for Urban Socioeconomic Sensing

Tianhui Liu, Hetian Pang, Xin Zhang, et al.

ICCV 2025

UrbanLLaVA: Multimodal LLM for Urban Intelligence

Jie Feng, Shengyuan Wang, Tianhui Liu, Yanxin Xi, Yong Li

Urban multimodal model for spatial reasoning and understanding.

Agentic Intelligence

This direction studies agents that can reason, coordinate, and interact with people, tools, and environments. It builds embodied agents, socially grounded agents, and multi-agent collaboration mechanisms, with emphasis on reinforced reasoning, multimodal agent interaction, social simulation, human-AI hybrid coordination, and deployment in governance and industry-facing applications.

Embodied Agents Multi-agent Systems Agentic Reasoning Social Simulation
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 2026

AI Agent Behavioral Science

Lin Chen, Yunke Zhang, Jie Feng, et al.

Cell Patterns 2025

Toward Large Reasoning Models: A Survey of Reinforced Reasoning with Large Language Models

Fengli Xu, Qianyue Hao, Chenyang Shao, et al.

KDD 2026 AI4S

Designing A Scalable LLM Agent Framework for Large-scale Urban Segregation Simulation

Qingbin Zeng, Yuwei Yan, Zhiheng Zheng, et al.

NeurIPS 2025

TrajAgent: LLM-Agent Framework for Trajectory Modeling

Yuwei Du, Jie Feng, Jie Zhao, Yong Li

LLM-agent framework for trajectory modeling.

Urban Science

This direction focuses on urban analytics and data-grounded modeling of human behavior in cities, including activity understanding, mobility patterns, social sensing, population dynamics, and governance-related urban phenomena. It emphasizes interpretable evidence and deployable insights that connect large-scale urban data with time-series modeling, urban governance, planning, policy evaluation, and public-service applications.

Urban Analytics Human Behavior Time Series Urban Governance Spatio-temporal Data Mining
UbiComp 2016

Context-aware Real-time Population Estimation for Metropolis

Honorable Mention Award at UbiComp 2016

Fengli Xu, Jie Feng, Pengyu Zhang, Yong Li

ACM TKDD 2023

Dynamic Graph Convolutional Recurrent Network for Traffic Prediction: Benchmark and Solution

#1 Most Cited Paper in TKDD 2023

Fuxian Li, Jie Feng, Huan Yan, et al.

INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics 2023

Meituan's Real-Time Intelligent Dispatching Algorithms Build the World's Largest Minute-Level Delivery Network

Yile Liang, Haocheng Luo, Haining Duan, et al.